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The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 125

‘She is with us,’ replied the fox, ‘and has changed herself into a big fox, and her foal into a little one, but strike the ground with a halter and say, “Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!”’

Who acts: mare, us · What happens: be, reply, change, strike, say, come · To what, where: fox, mare, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

punctnsubjcopcasensubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctconjccauxconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctccnmod:possoblcasedetamodoblpunctccparataxisdetobjcasedetoblccconjpunctpunctccompadvmodpunctcaseoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTShePRONisAUXwithADPusPRON,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETfoxNOUN,PUNCT‘NOUNandCCONJhasAUXchangedVERBherselfPRONintoADPaDETbigADJfoxNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONfoalNOUNintoADPaDETlittleADJoneNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJstrikeVERBtheDETgroundNOUNwithADPaDEThalterNOUNandCCONJsayVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTComeVERBhereADV,PUNCTOADPmareNOUNofADPtheDETmountainNOUNwitchNOUN!PUNCT”PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_5 uspunct
2SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 usnsubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 uscop
4withwithADP_5 uscase
5uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs8 repliednsubj
6,,PUNCT_5 uspunct
7’'PUNCT_8 repliedpunct
8repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 foxdet
10foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing8 repliedobj
11,,PUNCT_12 ‘punct
12‘‘NOUNNumber=Sing10 foxconj
13andandCCONJ_15 changedcc
14hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 changedaux
15changedchangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 repliedconj
16herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes15 changedobj
17intointoADP_20 foxcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 foxdet
19bigbigADJDegree=Pos20 foxamod
20foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing15 changedobl
21,,PUNCT_24 foalpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 foalcc
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 foalnmod:poss
24foalfoalNOUNNumber=Sing8 repliedobl
25intointoADP_28 onecase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 onedet
27littlelittleADJDegree=Pos28 oneamod
28oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing8 repliedobl
29,,PUNCT_31 strikepunct
30butbutCCONJ_31 strikecc
31strikestrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 repliedparataxis
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 grounddet
33groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing31 strikeobj
34withwithADP_36 haltercase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 halterdet
36halterhalterNOUNNumber=Sing31 strikeobl
37andandCCONJ_38 saycc
38saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf31 strikeconj
39,,PUNCT_41 Comepunct
40“"PUNCT_41 Comepunct
41ComecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf38 sayccomp
42herehereADVPronType=Dem41 Comeadvmod
43,,PUNCT_45 marepunct
44OofADPAbbr=Yes45 marecase
45maremareNOUNNumber=Sing41 Comeobl
46ofofADP_49 witchcase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 witchdet
48mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing49 witchcompound
49witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing45 marenmod
50!!PUNCT_45 marepunct
51”"PUNCT_41 Comepunct
52’'PUNCT_8 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentmarewith ustree rules
2reply speech: assertpastusthe fox and ‘into a little one; mare's foal oblvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic
3changepresent · perfectus not said heremareinto a big fox resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into fox=Result
4strikepresentthe groundwith a haltervn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with halter=Instrument
5say speech: expressinfinitivevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6come in a quoteinfinitivehereof mare of the mountain witchvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of mare=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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